From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from heidi.turbocat.net ([88.198.202.214]:33444 "EHLO mail.turbocat.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753769AbbEFF4o (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2015 01:56:44 -0400 Message-ID: <5549AB70.6010203@selasky.org> Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 07:49:36 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurent Pinchart , Mauro Carvalho Chehab CC: Gregor Jasny , Linux Media Mailing List , Hans de Goede , Hans Verkuil , Sakari Ailus Subject: Re: Time for a v4l-utils 1.8.0 release References: <55491541.1040709@googlemail.com> <20150505172235.4bef50eb@recife.lan> <1597461.hFCejjGnu0@avalon> In-Reply-To: <1597461.hFCejjGnu0@avalon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/06/15 04:07, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Mauro, > > On Tuesday 05 May 2015 17:22:35 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> Em Tue, 05 May 2015 21:08:49 +0200 Gregor Jasny escreveu: >>> Hello, >>> >>> It's already more than half a year since the last v4l-utils release. Do >>> you have any pending commits or objections? If no one vetos I'd like to >>> release this weekend. >> >> There is are a additions I'd like to add to v4l-utils: >> >> 1) on DVB, ioctls may fail with -EAGAIN. Some parts of the libdvbv5 don't >> handle it well. I made one quick hack for it, but didn't have time to >> add a timeout to avoid an endless loop. The patch is simple. I just need >> some time to do that; >> >> 2) The Media Controller control util (media-ctl) doesn't support DVB. >> >> The patchset adding DVB support on media-ctl is ready, and I'm merging >> right now, and matches what's there at Kernel version 4.1-rc1 and upper. >> >> Yet, Laurent and Sakari want to do some changes at the Kernel API, before >> setting it into a stone at Kernel v 4.1 release. > > I think Hans wants changes too. > >> This has to happen on the next 4 weeks. > > We'll try to, but depending on how review goes this might take more time. > > In the meantime I suggest moving the media-ctl changes to a separate branch > and go with the v1.8.0 release as planned. > >> So, I suggest to postpone the release of 1.8.0 until the end of this month. > Hi, Maybe someone would like to give the v4l-utils a spin on FreeBSD before release? Or is this the latest code in the .git ? --HPS